Tag: Nazi Germany
Greene’s mask Holocaust analogy is ‘appalling,’ says top Republican leader
The top Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives has become the latest leader to condemn Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s remarks that compared wearing masks to Jews being forced to wear yellow stars during...
Guinness World Records declares Walter Bingham oldest living journalist
A British-Israeli journalist was inducted into the Guinness World Records last week for being the oldest living journalist.
Walter Bingham, 97, is also the current record holder of “oldest radio talk-show host (living).”
A decorated World War II...
Why are Jews and Poles still arguing about the Holocaust?
It’s a controversy in which there are no heroes, as well as one that in a more rational world no one would bother with. That’s the only way to describe the increasingly complicated brawl...
Yad Vashem online exhibit emphasizes the power of family
The world will mark Yom Hashoah—Holocaust Memorial Day—on April 7-8 with particular attention on the 80th anniversary of a campaign against the Jews of Eastern Europe that was nothing short of mass murder. This...
‘New Yorker’ takes heat for article on Polish complicity during Holocaust
The New Yorker is under fire for an article it posted last week that critics claim lays the blame for the murder of Jews in Poland during World War II on the Polish people and not the Nazis.
The magazine...
Germany to draft law expanding citizenship to descendants of Nazi victims
The German government on Wednesday agreed to draft a law that would allow more descendants of those persecuted by Nazis to reclaim German citizenship.
The government said the new law would be a change to rules adopted in...
France returning Klimt art, sold under duress in 1938, to heirs of Jewish owner
France’s culture minister Roselyne Bachelot announced on Monday that the French government will return a painting by famed artist Gustav Klimt to the heirs of its Austrian Jewish owner, who was forced to sell...
Coming home: 65-year-old hidden Jew celebrates his bar mitzvah
“My family were hidden Jews, but not anymore. With this coming of age ritual, I’m proudly reclaiming my Jewish heritage,” said Robert Powell, a 65-year-old Wisconsinite about his recent bar mitzvah at Chabad of...
German court rules former Nazi concentration-camp guard, 96, ‘unfit’ to stand trial
A court in Wuppertal, Germany, ruled on Wednesday that a 96-year-old former Nazi concentration-camp guard is “unfit to stand trial,” though noted that there is a “high degree of probability” that he is guilty...
Lawyer cites satire in defense of Dickinson student’s anti-Semitic Holocaust video
The lawyer representing a student who attends Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa., now under investigation by the school for anti-Semitic comments he made in a video praising the Holocaust, said the clip was meant to be...